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The Portsmouth African Burying Ground is a memorial park on Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The memorial park sits on top of an 18th century gravesite containing almost two hundred freed and enslaved African people. [1] It is the only archeologically verified African burying ground for the time period in New England ...
The legal status of slavery in New Hampshire has been described as "ambiguous," [15] and abolition legislation was minimal or non-existent. [16] New Hampshire never passed a state law abolishing slavery. [17] That said, New Hampshire was a free state with no slavery to speak of from the American Revolution forward. [9] New Jersey
A mature frontier: the New Hampshire economy 1790–1850 Historical New Hampshire 24#1 (1969) 3–19. Squires, J. Duane. The Granite State of the United States: A History of New Hampshire from 1623 to the Present (1956) vol 1; Stackpole, Everett S. History of New Hampshire (4 vol 1916–1922) vol 4 online covers Civil War and late 19th century
Jude Hall, of Exeter, New Hampshire, enlisted in May 1775 in the 3rd New Hampshire militia regiment under General Enoch Poor, he later re-enlisted in the 2nd NH.Jude was one of the longest serving soldiers and fought in the Revolutionary War for eight years, earning his freedom from slavery. [1]
Ona "Oney" Judge Staines (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848) was a slave owned by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington became president, at the President's House in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital city. [1]
Prince Whipple (c. 1750–1796) was an African American slave and later freedman.He was a soldier and a bodyguard during the American Revolution under his slaveowner General William Whipple of the New Hampshire Militia who formally manumitted him in 1784.
In the 1770s, enslaved black people throughout New England began sending petitions to northern legislatures demanding freedom. 5 Northern states adopted policies to at least gradually abolish slavery: Pennsylvania in 1780, New Hampshire and Massachusetts in 1783, and Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1784.
Joshua Atherton (June 20, 1737 – April 3, 1809), [1] was a lawyer and early anti-slavery campaigner [2] in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. [3] He served as Attorney General of New Hampshire. [4] In later years he was also commissioner for the United States direct tax. [5] Signature of Joshua Atherton, lawyer and politician